The American Two Party system

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(03-06-2023, 08:11 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Really Nate? You're going with "half of the US population really wants to kill the other half"?

158.5 million people voted in 2020, only 110 million people bothered to vote in the 2022 midterms. We have 330 people in this country, regardless of voter status. 34% of voters identify as Independent. We're already talking about only 1/5th of our country being actively invested enough in politics to actually vote in midterms and having ANY party affiliation. So when you split that between the two parties, we're at roughly 1/10th of the country vs 1/10th of the country, and that's still not narrowing it even further super extreme party affiliation. Even if you want to be super generous and call it 10% of each party is the extreme, all of a sudden you're talking about 1/100th vs 1/100th.

The extremes of both parties are significant in counting numbers because we're dealing with a total of 330 million, but as far as compared to non-extremes? They're a minority that is loud just because social media gives them a big 'ol echo chamber to group together rather than being spread out over 3.5 million square miles of US land. 

Even that loud minority, the number of people actually wanting to murder others based off belief? We're now talking about a fraction of a group that's a fraction of a group, that's a fraction of a group, that's a fraction of a group, etc.

Even the Jan 6th riot storming the capitol building, only 10,000 people were involved in that, and only 2,000 of those 10,000 went inside the building. You use a magical net called "The Internet" and you can gather together 10,000 assholes out of 330,000,000 on just about any topic. 10,000 people looks like a lot in a photograph, but that's 0.003%. 3.5x more people die each year in the US of Parkinson disease than participated in the storming of the capitol building. There are 36x more Amish in the US than stormed the Capitol building.

Don't get sucked into believing the internet is an actual representation of real life and give the extreme assholes magical powers that they don't have. The overwhelming majority of people just live their lives.

I can't vote in the primary, 'cause reasons.....